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I have been offered an (unpaid) fellowship abroad with a large international firm, which I will likely supplement with some gov work as well (minimum wage, basically). The fellowship is part of an abroad program, and I am wondering if anyone here seems any detriment to taking the program and graduating one semester early (I've been loading up on credits), in terms of my attractiveness of firms for 3L employment.

Any thoughts on how a Dec. graduation (and likely Feb. bar) would pan out in terms of career prospects?

ABA requires 2.5 years. CDO says maybe 1-2 students graduate early. CONS are potential time gap and debt hits earlier. PROS are that I would get to leave LS earlier and get out of this location (definitively an area I do not want to be), and might be able to take earlier bar. Question is whether firms would let me work off-cycle like that.

ABA requires 2.5 years. CDO says maybe 1-2 students graduate early. CONS are potential time gap and debt hits earlier. PROS are that I would get to leave LS earlier and get out of this location (definitively an area I do not want to be), and might be able to take earlier bar. Question is whether firms would let me work off-cycle like that.

Debt hits earlier, but there's PAYE for that. I graduated in Dec. and my PAYE payments were $0 because I was only making $200 a week waiting for my job to start. I have some friends who started early. One started like the week after the Feb. bar, but that was cray.